Enewsletter

Enewsletter • July
15, 2009

Notes
from Vegan Outreach

Links
of the Week

AAC leafleter Aashish Bhimani.

Another
Internet Soy Article – excerpt:
“There are at least 30–40 scientific papers
on soy published each month. If you do a search
on PubMed, you will find almost 7,000 papers
with ‘soy’ in the title and over 19,000 with
soy in the abstract. So, it would be quite easy
to build a false case against soy by citing
a handful of these thousands of studies.”
Read
full article | Subscribe
to Jack’s blog.

At right, Jack Norris and Jon Camp trip the light fantastic; click here for more photos.

Company of the Week

Clif
– a boon to many vegans! From their Q&A:
“All CLIF Bar products
are made from ingredients that do not come from
animals except most Mojo flavors (contains organic
honey), and CLIF SHOT Recovery Drink and Luna
Sport Recovery Smoothie (contains whey).”

Notes
from All Over

Excerpt: “Yes, it’s important to
eat healthfully, and I blogged recently about
good health as good animal advocacy. But fun
vegan food is good activism, too. An all-or-nothing
approach to healthful eating only undermines
efforts to attract people to a vegan diet. The
best moments in vegan activism come when someone
looks at the way we eat and says, ‘Wow
– I could do that.’” Full
article.

Notes
from Our Members

Above,
Darina Smith takes the animals’ plight to
new people at Columbia College; below, Sean
Hollick reaches summer students at Notre
Dame.

Just
wanted to say thanks for the “How
Vegan?” article. It’s what I’ve always
thought on my own and have always had a tough
time expressing. It’s so important that we bring
everyone to doing more for the animals in whatever
capacity they can instead of making it appear
impossible and them being apathetic and turned
off to a conscientious lifestyle.—LH, 7/8/09

Thank
you for educating me about veganism.
I received a booklet at the Warped tour, and
I ended up reading the entire thing. Of course,
everyone has an idea of what animal cruelty
is, but actually reading the facts proves that
living a vegan lifestyle would definitely help
the fight. I have a chronic stomach disease,
and it’s hard enough to create a diet for myself
to stay healthy, but after learning more about
becoming vegan, I plan on pursuing the lifestyle.
—AB, 7/7/09

Thank
you for your outreach program.
I had been wanting to become a vegetarian for
several years. Your pamphlet, which I picked
up at Union Square, NYC, made it clear to me
that NOW is the time. It’s been two weeks now
and I’m not going back!—TC, 7/7/09

Leafleting
the Pearl St. Mall in Boulder,
CO, a number of people approached me after reading
my VO
shirt. I noticed that people with their
hands apparently full are still often willing
to take a leaflet. For instance, today a guy
giving a kid a piggyback ride with his arms
wrapped around the kid’s legs still managed
to grab a leaflet. Shortly thereafter, he set
the kid down and started to page through the
Compassionate Choices.—Barbara Bear, 6/28/09

There
were lots of kids and teenagers
at Houston’s 4th of July fireworks. One boy
told me that he now doesn’t want to eat meat
anymore. His parents requested three Guides.—Eugene Khutoryansky, 7/4/09

Lots
of young people at the Phoenix
Art Walk, and lots of vegetarians and vegans.
We met one vegetarian who said she’d donate
to VO! This week there was also a huge advertisement
for vegan doughnuts at a coffee shop, and a
hotdog vendor had veggie dogs. This area is
looking promising!—Jeff Boghosian, 7/6/09

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farmed animals by promoting informed,
ethical eating.